The Black Friday Walmart strikes mattered a great deal, because Walmart is the corporate goliath in the room. Walmart represents everything about modern life that is sustainable only to the cause of siphoning resources out of our neighborhoods and into the pockets of the Directors of the company. These strikes are yet another sign that people have grown weary of the inequality that plagues us.

If the wealth of the Walton family were invested in the workers (or nationalized), every worker at Walmart could have a full health plan, education, sick days, and a living wage.

Remember WalMart during your MayDay planning, and remember Walmart when you need a glaring example of everything that is wrong with our modern economy.

Habemus Papam & the New Pope must 'resurrect' Liberation Theology, as only then can the Catholic Church be remotely relevant to the actual material well being of the likes of Walmart Workers and their similarly toiling brothers and sisters worldwide & btw Jesus was really a 'leftist' by any measure, imho !!

I have never supported - Man Made Religion. Never will. None of us here are perfect - SO - who should be in a position of the judgement of others? The Priests ( churches ) mandate - was only to preach/teach the word of God.

Well Now - they have gone a bit beyond that now - Haven't they?

Christians killing Christians - Muslims killing Muslims etc etc etc. All on their own ( THEIR OWN ) determination.

You're a fraud!!! You don't know what occupy Tampa is doing, You don't know about anti labor activity in your own town, and when confronted with these facts, you dishonestly personally attack with immature bad hollywood clips.

LOL.

So you are against Social Security, Don't care about the current student protests in your town by your group, against tax increases on the rich, know nothing about walmart incursions down the block, and you're against regulations right?

Precious. See I don't need a youtube click to show you for what you are.

Ahhhh - still that seems low. When you figure how many employees per store - what their wages are like - 1% getting a living wage ( still raped in comparison to market average ) - well it will get worse especially when/if ACA gets underway as those to afraid or ashamed to get county/state support for health care will have the alternative of qualifying for Health Care even when they still can not afford it.

Excuse me but you are confusing the Declaration of Independence with the founding of the nation. The Constitution provides no such protection, nor even the right to self governance; which is why the corporations are taking over the world.
A local municipality does not even have the power to say no to Factory Farming, Fracking or any other corporate obscenity. There IS no right of self governance in this country because the founding fathers were too busy protecting their right to commerce - hence the commerce clause in the Constitution.

These principles WERE the basis of the Declaration of Independence but the Constitutional Convention was highjacked and the nation was lost. To get it back we must bring the rule of law into proper order where it protects the rights of people, communities and the living instead of the rights of property and its owners. This is where 99.9 perocent of all Americans are uncer ecucated and mis-informed. We have been taught our entire lives that "this is the greatest nation on earth" without being taught the truth of the finer points of our actual history, both political and legal.

The best way to address this problem is to start to get educated and work to take back control of your local municipality and counties - and the best way to do that is to watch the entire series of The Democracy School and start to talk to others in local communities around the nation who are already doing it.

There are over 100 places nation-wide who are taking this on in order to put local bans against fracking, factory farming and other toxic corporate practices into place and in every instance, the States and Federal Governments insist that they are all in violation of the law because they do not have the RIGHT to local governance.

Here is the link to the videos if you are ready to learn more, but I'll warn you, it is not for the faint of heart. As Tom Lindsey says "Most towns and municipalities will not take action until they are harmed or feeling the pain directly of the Corporate Boys." True enough. http://vimeo.com/user5651125/videos

The conservative economic policy over the last few decades is short sighted and is not sustainable. It creates inequality which cannot last. Not before long, the conservative economic policy will break down and liberal economic policy will return as the only sustainable choice.

I did when I was younger. I actually worked at one for 9 months when I just got out of high school. The one I worked at told workers to report anyone talking about unionizing. It was the most depressing atmosphere I have ever worked in.

These scum are trying to get into India now by bribery and blackmail. Yes corporate blackmail of ministers by the corporations after they take the bribe is the elephant in the room. Same in America the reason why politicians cant act is because they take the bribes in the 'lobby' and are now being blackmailed by their paymasters. This model of Corruption is the new norm. Now foreign aid in the UK is officially used to bribe for contracts. In America bribery is called lobbying :-( And blackmail is a racist and perjorative term that sullys the image of the black male. Voila !

Wal-Mart is almost certainly being hit much harder than they have let on. If the commercial media did a better job covering all the scandals they're involved in it would be clear that they are among the most corrupt corporations out there. Even a writer from Forbes Magazine said that the bribery scandal would bring Wal-Mart down along with a lot of the other scandals they're involved in and the samples he cited were only a fraction of the scandals Wal-Mart is involved in. After looking up some information on Wal-Mart I found out that they've been involved in human rights abuses in their factories including the fire in Bangladesh, sex discrimination, overcharging customers, deleting hours of their workers, using illegal aliens at low wages, planned obsolescence and so many other scandals that I couldn't keep track of them without making a long organized list; which I just might do assuming I don't find someone that beats me to it.

If anyone is interested I have begun my own comments on this at the following site and included the link to the Forbes story.

Did I mention the Wal-Mart Oreo cookies scandal; they don't arrest many if any Wal-Mart executives even though there is an enormous amount of evidence for many crimes including negligent mass murder in the Bangladesh fire but if someone takes their Oreos the government has to use an enormous amount of tax payer money to prosecute this working person to the full extent of the law!

Really good to see OWS talking about wealth inequality, this is not so much a "problem" as it is an engineering nightmare the American economic system is spinning out of control, grossly unbalanced and like a washing machine on spin it's starting to make some noise.

America and indeed the entire world as we extend our special form of "freedom" will in the end breakdown completely.

Those that support this wealth concentration, like the American Republican Party, look to the thousands of years that humans lived under Monarchy and see that as a more stable and preferred system to messy democracy where people can just vote themselves stuff (without earning it by working for a Royal) if you think they don't support Monarchy, think "death tax", anyway good to see this. Remember 54% of exit voters in VA in 2012 thought wealth inequality is a major problem in America. Also remember that if you want the politicians to do what you want, you have to threaten their seats, and no third party is a threat to anybody.